Epstein
accuser Virginia Giuffre’s memoir to be published posthumously
Nobody’s Girl, which Giuffre had been working
on before her death, is set to be released this autumn
Donna Ferguson and agency
Mon 25
Aug 2025 00.03 BST
The posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, one
of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, will be published in the autumn,
a publisher has announced.
Giuffre had been working on Nobody’s Girl: A
Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, with the award-winning
author and journalist Amy Wallace before her death earlier this year.
The 400-page book will be released on 21
October, according to the Associated Press.
Giuffre, who alleged she had been trafficked
for sex to Prince Andrew, had completed the manuscript before she took her own
life in April, the publisher Alfred A Knopf said.
Prince Andrew has denied Giuffre’s
allegations. In 2022, Giuffre and the prince reached an out-of-court settlement
after she sued him for sexual assault.
Knopf’s statement includes an email Giuffre
wrote to Wallace 25 days before her death, stating that it was her “heartfelt
wish” the memoir be released “regardless” of her circumstances.
“The content of this book is crucial, as it
aims to shed light on the systemic failures that allow the trafficking of
vulnerable individuals across borders,” the email reads. “It is imperative that
the truth is understood and that the issues surrounding this topic are
addressed, both for the sake of justice and awareness.”
Giuffre had been hospitalised after a serious
accident on 24 March, Knopf said, and sent the email on 1 April. She died on 25
April at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years.
“In the event of my passing, I would like to
ensure that Nobody’s Girl is still released. I believe it has the potential to
impact many lives and foster necessary discussions about these grave
injustices,” she wrote to Wallace.
Knopf’s statement says the book contains
“intimate, disturbing, and heartbreaking new details about her time with
Epstein, Maxwell and their many well-known friends, including Prince Andrew,
about whom she speaks publicly for the first time since their out-of-court
settlement in 2022.”
Knopf editor-in-chief, Jordan Pavlin, said
Nobody’s Girl was a “raw and shocking” journey and “the story of a fierce
spirit struggling to break free”.
In 2023, the New York Post reported that
Giuffre had reached a deal “believed to be worth millions” with an undisclosed
publisher.
Knopf spokesperson Todd Doughty told AP that
she initially agreed to a seven-figure contract with Penguin Press, but moved
with acquiring editor Emily Cunningham after she was hired by Knopf as
executive editor last year.
Doughty declined to provide further details
about the Epstein associates featured in Nobody’s Girl, but confirmed that
Giuffre made “no allegations of abuse against [Donald] Trump”, who continues to
face questions about the disgraced financier and his former friend.
Nobody’s Girl is distinct from Giuffre’s
unpublished memoir The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, referenced in previous court
filings and unsealed in 2019. Through Doughty, Wallace says she began working
with Giuffre on a new memoir in spring 2021.
“Nobody’s Girl was both vigorously
fact-checked and legally vetted,” a Knopf statement reads.
Giuffre’s co-author on her memoir, Wallace, is
an award-winning magazine and newspaper reporter whose work has appeared in the
New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications.
A representative for Andrew did not
immediately return the AP’s request for comment. Buckingham Palace was asked
for comment.
Additional reporting by the Associated Press
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